[Coco] Tool Shed Issues

[Wayne Campbell]

255x256x47=3,068,160. If those numbers are correct, any file over that size
will not be copied in its entirety.

On Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 8:53 AM tim lindner via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 3:48 PM coco--- via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > All
> >   Hi I just tried to transfer a 4.2MB file to the EOU hard driveimage
> > which has 34 MB free but when I try to play it with the OS9 play program
> > it fails. I did notice that Toolshed gave an error but the file ( or
> > some of it transfers )
>
> I just tried to re-create you situation and I got this error:
>
> >  os9 copy big.txt
> EOU_Version1_0_1_\(6809_ONLY\)_04-07-2024/68SDC.VHD,big.txt
> copy: error 217 on file 'big.txt' to
> 'EOU_Version1_0_1_(6809_ONLY)_04-07-2024/68SDC.VHD,big.txt': file is
> too fragmented to be expanded further
>
> That error is self explanatory.
>
>
> > a 900K sterio wave file played just fine through my ORC90 clone with the
> > command
> > play -o MUSIC.wav
> > the drive  image is on a CoCoSDC.
> >
> > The file that will not play is the same format as the MUSIC.wav file
> > that will
> > 16 bit wave file. Both files play fine on a PC
> >
> > Is there a program in OS9 to determine what the size of the transferred
> > file is ?
>
> The toolshed DIR command and the OS-9 DIR command both have an E
> option to display sizes.
> In my copy I only got the first 557,056 bytes of the file transferred.
> The original file is 4,320,000 bytes.
>
>
> > What is the current version of ToolShed so I can check to see if my up
> > to date?
>
> The source is here. You have to compile yourself to get the latest version.
> https://github.com/nitros9project/toolshed
>
>
> > Is there a maximum size file that can be transferred with toolshed ?
>
> I've never calculated the maximum file size. But fragmentation will
> decrease the maximum size.
>
> A file can have 47 segments. Each segment can be 255 sectors long.
> Each sector is 256 bytes.
> Is that correct?
>
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